Welcome to Vision + Impact.

Who's behind this

I created Vision + Impact
from lived experience.

In many ways, I embody the very story Vision + Impact was built to serve. I have spent my life catching the vision for what could be next — reinventing, rebuilding, reshaping — and finding new ways to transform my own life and the lives of others. What I see now is that reinvention has not been the exception in my life. It has been the pattern.

In 2018, after a highly successful 25+ year career in higher education — from faculty member to university vice president — I took a leap of faith and launched Cultural Connections by Design (CCBD). What began as a bold pivot grew into a seven-figure consulting firm serving more than 100 colleges, universities, and corporations across the country.

Then, in 2020, both my personal life and my business began shifting in profound and unexpected ways. My mother became critically ill, and during that same season — as life would strangely have it — I landed my first major contract and met the man who would later become my husband.

Just three months later, my mother passed away.

Suddenly, I was grieving the greatest loss of my life while simultaneously stepping into some of its most meaningful new beginnings: becoming a first-time bride at 49 and legally adopting my beautiful daughter, who is now 22.

That season changed me deeply. I was carrying immense grief and immense joy at the exact same time, learning how to hold heartbreak, love, ambition, family, and transformation all within the same chapter of my life.

Then, in 2024, my husband and I left the United States and moved to Belize, where we began building an entirely new chapter centered around life, work, creativity, and balance — including opening Bamboo Art Gallery in San Pedro.

For a while, life felt expansive and full of momentum.

Then the national climate shifted quickly, and as a company rooted in DEI work, CCBD felt the backlash almost immediately. Contracts disappeared. Work slowed dramatically. The company I had spent years building was suddenly forced into reinvention once again.

I had to make a significant transition — shifting from primarily DEI-centered consulting into broader leadership development and organizational transition work — and rebuild from the ground up.

Vision + Impact emerged from that rebuilding.

Although I originally created this work for academic women leaders navigating campus-based projects and transitions, the conversations I began having revealed a much bigger need. Women were not just asking for help with professional projects. They were asking for support through reinvention, uncertainty, identity shifts, major life decisions, and the question so many women quietly carry:

What comes next for me now?

That is how Vision + Impact evolved.

It became a space for women who know something in their lives is shifting — whether they chose that change or whether it was chosen for them. Women who need more than encouragement. Women who need clarity, strategy, reflection, and support as they rebuild, relaunch, or finally give themselves permission to pursue what is next.

That lived experience shapes the way I hold this work. It is why I show up as if every vision matters deeply, every transition deserves care, and every next chapter is worthy of intentional support.

I am not speaking about reinvention from the outside. I am speaking from inside it.